Quotes on Thought Provoking

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that design is a love for all living things.

There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no­­­-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.